Longreads: Green Economy, Earth on the Brink, and a Hot May

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Green and environment have been popular topics as the UN’s Rio+20 meeting takes place in Brazil. Among accessible, environment-oriented longreads in the last week is the Economist’s “Green growth: shoots, greens and leaves” – which explores the ideas of natural wealth accounting and payments for environmental services, among other things. (Also see Paul Krugman’s 8,000-word climate economics primer, “Building a Green Economy,” in April’s New York Times Magazine.)

Climate-related data and research were also a hot topic as new global temperature figures revealed the second warmest May on record.